Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest of Congressional decency and cleanliness and to get the Prohibition alley-cat off the backs of so-called American statesmen, I will agree to vote a liberal pension to Wayne Wheeler,* provided he will move out of the country and into some land like Soviet Russia or Mexico, where his peculiar talents will be appreciated and poison gas is more popular...
Finally Sir Austen Chamberlain was hampered in making concessions by a curious hue and cry that British industry languishes while German workers are busy turning out "half-finished arms and arms parts" which are sold to Russia or shipped to Sweden for completion and thence to Russia, China, etc. It was a pat coincidence that the Foch report was sprung and the British "half-finished arms" scare was popped while Premier Poincare and Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer were hobnobbing together in Paris?for these statesmen both oppose the conciliatory attitude toward Germany of Premier Briand and Sir Austen...
...with him Russian military experts who became instructors at Whampoa. Chiang has taken what Russian gold and guns he could get, but it should be noted that he could get no others. He has said: "We can and will use men and money from any nation sympathetic to us. . . . Russia, in general, has treated China better than the other nations...
...goods in order to force high prices from consumers, was liable to get his ears chopped off. Modern monopolies are forestallers incorporated, and are punished, within a particular nation, through anti-trust laws. But no laws yet exist against monopolies (forestallings) in international trade. Brazil controls coffee, Russia platinum, Chile saltpetre, Germany and France potash, Great Britain tin and rubber...
Cotton Tariff. No longer may U. S. cotton enter Russia free of duty, for the Council of People's Commissars calculated that at present prices U. S. lint can stand a tax of three and one-half cents a pound and still be cheaper than Turkestan cotton. This tariff was promulgated last week, the current price of cotton in the U. S. being only twelve cents...